On 2010 Sep 6, at 5:56 AM, allison wrote:
On 09/05/2010 10:06 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>
> I just ran across an NEC D75008 microcontroller in a small photo copier
> ca. 1990. According to a search it is a 4-bit microcontroller.
>
> Idle curiousity, but does anybody know if this has any inheritance from
> or relation to better-known microcontrollers such as the TMS1000, that is,
> is it NEC's version of something better known?, or is it NEC's own
> architecture?
No, ?it is NEC unique. ?For 4 bitters that is
usually the case. ? it is a
much more expanded
design closer to modern PICs with many variants having LCD driver on
board.
OK, a family I had never run across before. Found a datasheet for (by
appearance) a descendant (D75112/6). Looks like they took a cue from the
8080 family - the register set is nearly identical but in 4 bits, with
register pairs BC, DE, HL to make 8-bit registers.
Many of the 4bit MCUs did that. ?The instruction set is is similar to 8080
and different since it has
skip on condition and typical Harvard oddities and additions for tables and
inline constants.
The family closest to it is the 1980s ucom75.
Allison